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ed to realise how childish the words had unded harry saw hi fsh the ark39s greenish light
39you don39t know what i39 capable of,39 said alfoy ore forcefully, 39you don39t know what i39ve done!39
39oh, yes, i do,39 said dubledore ildly 39you alost killed katie bell and ronald weasley you have been tryg, with creasg desperation, to kill all year five , dra, but they have been feeble attepts feeble, to be honest, that i wonder whether your heart has been really it39
39it has been it!39 said alfoy vehently 39i39ve been work- g on it all year, and tonight -39
where the depths of the castle below harry heard a uffled yell alfoy stiffened and gnced over his shoulder
39body is puttg up a good fight,39 said dubledore nversationally 39but you were sayg yes, you have an-ad to troduce death eaters to y school which, i adit, i thought ipossible how did you do it?39
but alfoy said nothg: he was still listeng to whatever was happeng below and seed alost as paralysed as harry was
39perhaps you ought to t on with the job alone,39 ested dubledore 39what if your back-up has been thwarted by y guard? as you have perhaps realised, there are bers of the order of the phoenix here tonight, too and after all, you don39t really need help i have no wand at the ont i cannot defend yself39
alfoy rely stared at hi
39i see,39 said dubledore kdly, when alfoy neither
oved nor spoke 39you are afraid to act until they jo
you39?
39i39 not afraid!39 snarled alfoy, though he still ade no ove to hurt dubledore 39it39s you who should be scared!39
39but why? i don39t thk you will kill , dra killg is not nearly as easy as the nocent believe tell , while we wait for your friends how did you le the here? it sees to have taken you a long ti to work out how to do it39
alfoy looked as though he was fightg down the ur to shout, or to voit he gulped and took several deep
eaths, grg at dubledore, his wand potg directly at the tter39s heart then, as though he uld not help hiself, he said, 391 had to nd that
oken vanishg cabet that no one39s ed for years the one ontague got lost st year39
39aaaah39
dubledore39s sigh was half a groan he closed his eyes for a ont
that was clever there is a pair, i take it?39
39the other39s b and burkes,39 said alfoy, 39and they ake a kd of passa beeen the ontague told that when he was stuck the hogwarts one, he was trapped libo but tis he uld hear what was gog on at school, and tis what was gog on the shop, as if the cabet was travellg beeen the, but he uldn39t ake anyone hear hi the end he anad to apparate out, even though he39d never passed his test he nearly died dog it everyone thought it was a really good story, but i was the only one who realised what it ant - even b didn39t know - 1 was the one who realised there uld be a way to hogwarts through the cabets if i fixed the
oken one39
39very good,39 urured dubledore 39 the death eaters were able to pass fro b and burkes to the school to help you a clever pn, a very clever pn and, as you say, right under y nose 39
39yeah,39 said alfoy who, bizarrely, seed to draw ura and fort fro dubledore39s praise 39yeah, it was!39
39but there were tis,39 dubledore went on, 39weren39t there, when you were not sure you would eed ndg the cabet? and you rerted to crude and badly judd as-ures such as sendg a cursed neckce that was bound to reach the wrong hands poing ad there was only the slightest chance i ight drk 39
39yeah, well, you still didn39t realise who was behd that stuff, did you?39 sneered alfoy, as dubledore slid a little down the raparts, the strength his legs apparently fadg, and harry led fruitlessly, utely, agast the enchantnt bdg hi
39as a atter of fact, i did,39 said dubledore 39i was sure it was you39
39why didn39t you s , then?39 alfoy deanded
39i tried, dra profesr snape has been keepg watch over you on y orders -39
39he hasn39t been dog your orders, he proised y other -39
39of urse that is what he would tell you, dra, but -39
39he39s a double-ant, you stupid old an, he isn39t workg for you, you jt thk he is!39
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